[ILUG] Galeon and gnome

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Niall O Broin (niall at linux.ie):

> I've been wanting to try Galeon but its homepage says that it requires
> Gnome.

It lies like a cheap toupee.

> Does this mean that you must be running Gnome to use it or simply
> that the Gnome libraries must be installed ?

The latter.  First of all, the concept of "running GNOME" is a mirage.
GNOME is just a collection of sundry X11 clients, a bunch of libs, and a
CORBA broker.  Ditto the equally illusory concept of "running KDE".  
Dependencies are dependencies are dependencies:  If you meet an X11
client's dependencies, nothing's going to prevent you from running it
with whatever arbitrary choice of window manager you prefer -- or even
with _no_ window manager, but just an X server and an xterm running
(e.g., what you get with running startx with an .xinitrc containing just
"/usr/bin/X11/xterm").

As usual, the Debian package database is useful in listing an
application's actual dependencies, even where the upstream source is 
part of a cult with designs on using up your drive space (e.g., GNOME):
http://packages.debian.org/testing/non-us/galeon-beta.html

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